THE WRITING PROCESS: EDITING

Editing is check for grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization

*GRAMMAR: Concentrate first on verbs. For example, if you have written about a past event in your life, you will need to check that the verbs are in past tense. Once you have checked the verbs, you should check carefully those aspects of grammar that you personally have most difficulty with.

*SPELLING: When you read though your writing, you may stop at words that you have spelled incorrectly, and you should check them in the dictionary or ask someone.
If you are writing on a computer, you should run the spell check. This will help you correct most of your mistakes


*PUNCTUATION: You must check to make sure you have not written any run-on sentences or sentence fragments. In correcting these problems, you usually need to change the punctuation. You can check to make sure that other aspects of your punctuation are correct. For example: Have you punctuated correctly sentences that contain direct speech? Are your end punctuation marks correct? Have you used commas correctly?

*CAPITALIZATION: Check that your sentences all start with a capital letter. You also need capital letters for all proper nouns.